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Logicism

Logicism meaning

The doctrine that mathematics is a branch of logic in that some or all mathematics is reducible to logic.

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Bob Hale and Crispin Wright argue that it is not a problem for logicism because the incompleteness theorems apply equally to first order logic as they do to arithmetic.

From Bertrand Russell 's logicism they sought reduction of mathematics to logic.

Gottlob Frege was the founder of logicism.

See discussion LOGICISM at pages 43–46.

The starting point of the ongoing sympathetic reexamination of Frege's logicism.

Without this device, the project of logicism would have been doubtful or impossible.